Archaeologists believed for a while that the bones of small carnivores left behind by hunter-gatherers in the early Neolithic settlements were left behind after those animals were killed for their ...

It looks at the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming ... in burial practices over the 2,000-year span of the Neolithic period. "Two thousand years is a long period, even for ...

Around this time, hunter–gatherer societies in the Levant were transitioning to a farmer lifestyle. This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been ...

Credit: Lennart Larsen / National Museum of Denmark On the other hand, in Baltic and Scandinavian regions, some late Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities, such as the Pitted Ware Culture, preserved ...

One particularly intriguing discovery is the low-level presence of early European farmer ancestry in Ukrainian Neolithic hunter-gatherers in addition to the previously identified 5 Caucasus ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...